SUSE and MariaDB (the company formerly known as SkySQL!) officially teamed up today, joining forces with IBM Power Systems, in a partnership that promises to expand the Linux application ecosystem. According to sources at SUSE, customers will now be able to run a wider variety of applications on Power8, increasing both flexibility and choice while working within existing IT infrastructure. more>>

Sometimes a new piece of code turns out to be more useful than its author
suspected. Alejandra Morales recently came
out with the Cryogenic Project
as part of his Master's thesis, supervised by Christian Grothoff. The idea
was to reduce energy consumption by scheduling input/output operations in
batches.
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Every year, heck...every month, Linux is adopted by more companies and
organizations as an important if not primary component of their enterprise
platform. And the more serious the hardware platform, the more likely it is
to be running Linux. 60% of servers, 70% of Web servers and 95% of all
supercomputers are Linux-based!
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Linux Journal has published a couple extended articles about Docker
and its container technology, which is fast revolutionizing
virtualization and cloud-building. Docker already turned those
industries on their head, and now, last week, it went out and bought
Orchard Laboratories.
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Silicon Mechanics, Inc., announced this week that Wayne State
University (WSU) is the recipient of the company’s 3rd Annual Research
Cluster Grant. This includes donation of a complete high-performance
compute cluster from Silicon Mechanics and several of its partners.
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At the start of this quarter
we looked
at how 2013's graphics developments were more incremental than
revolutionary, perhaps with the need for LTS stability in mind. Things
are looking quite different this year, with several major changes
quietly under way. more>>

I am reporting the Linux project activity for the past two months in this article. Blame it on me being heads down to get some development work done. Without further ado, let's get started on catching up.
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One year ago the Puerto Rico Python Interest Group (prPIG) was founded on one purpose; to create a sustainable user community based on software development in Puerto Rico. On February 20, 2014 we will celebrate our first anniversary with an open format meeting with lightning talks from the community. more>>

Last October, our
last
look at graphics focused on the plans laid at September's X
Developer's Conference. In the three months since then, these plans
have come to fruition, reasserting the continuing relevance of X.org
compared with Wayland and other compositing display servers.
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